Should we eat meat? The Big Health Dilemma

As the grand-daughter of a butcher, a keen healthy-eating advocate and (much to my grandfather’s disappointment at the time) a former vegetarian, I was very interested to watch this week’s BBC Horizon programme about meat.

Meat / health dilemma

Having watch the programme with interest, the key conclusions that I drew from it are as follows:

processed foods are probably bad for you

saturated fat certainly isn’t as bad as we have been led to believe in the past

and that – what a surprise – you are best off eating a balanced diet with meat in moderation and vegetables a plenty.